Testing General Relativity with Black Hole X-Ray Data
Abstract
Einstein's theory of General Relativity was proposed over 100 years ago and has successfully passed a large number of observational tests in weak gravitational fields. On the contrary, the strong field regime is still largely unexplored. Astrophysical black holes are ideal laboratories for testing gravity in the strong field regime. Here I will briefly review the current efforts of my group to test the strong gravitational field around black holes using X-ray data from NuSTAR, RXTE, Suzaku, and XMM-Newton.
- Publication:
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Astronomy Reports
- Pub Date:
- October 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1134/S1063772921100024
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2010.03793
- Bibcode:
- 2021ARep...65..902B
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at the "4th Zeldovich Virtual Meeting" (Minsk, Belarus, 7-11 September 2020)